Charity Details

Ceased date: 05 March 2026

Edinburgh Merchant Company Charitable Trust

SC022283Registered charity from 13 January 1994

Notes:

This charity has been wound up/dissolved.

Charity Information:

The Name the Charity is Known By The Merchant Company Charitable Trust

Address The Merchant Hall
22 Hanover Street
Edinburgh

Postcode EH2 2EP

Website www.mcoe.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Reason For Removal

Object:

The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund for the from time to time in the Trustees' charge to or for the following charitable objects and purposes namely: For the benefit of the public primarily in the Edinburgh area, but otherwise throughout Scotland as the Trustees consider appropriate: 1. To encourage and provide assistance to any projects, schemes or undertakings which the Trustees consider will be of benefit to the public or sectors of the community in the Edinburgh area. 2. To promote and encourage the advancement of education of children and young persons up to the age of 30 by the provision of facilities, projects, schemes, courses of instruction and training and other arrangements which in the opinion of the Trustees will increase and expand the knowledge and awareness of such children and young persons in the workings of industry, business and commerce and related matters in Scotland and elsewhere throughout the world. 3. To provide assistance of an educational, social welfare or any other kind to any such children or young persons whom the Trustees consider to be disadvantaged by reason of ill health, financial or family need or in any other way whatsoever. 4. To provide assistance to any other established charity which is considered by the Trustees to have purposes similar to any of the foregoing. 5. To provide grants, bursaries, prizes, travel scholarships, study or research grants, books, tools, instruments, kit or other equipment and generally any other assistance and encouragement, financially or otherwise, towards the fulfilment of the foregoing objects.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

To encourage and provide assistance to any project, schemes or undertakings, which the Trustees will consider to be of benefit to the public or sectors of the community in the Edinburgh area. To promote and encourage the advancement of education of children and young persons up to the age of 30 by the provision of facilities, projects, schemes, courses of instruction and training and other arrangements, which in the opinion of the Trustees will increase and expand the knowledge and awareness of such children and young persons in the working of industry, business, commerce and related matters in Scotland and elsewhere throughout the world. To provide assistance of an educational, social, welfare or any kind to any such children or young persons whom the Trustees consider to be disadvantaged by reason of ill health, financial or family need or in any other way whatsoever.

Charity Status: Removed

Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Constitutional Form Date: 13 Jan 1994

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"

Beneficiaries: "Children or young people"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Jul 2021	£4,806	£8,748	22 Mar 2022	Yes
31 Jul 2022	£4,742	£8,118	26 Apr 2023	Yes
31 Jul 2023	£7,075	£7,695	15 Feb 2024	Yes
31 Jul 2024	£8,077	£12,810	29 Apr 2025	Yes	Not published by OSCR
31 Jul 2025			No	Annual Information due by 30 Apr 2026
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
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Last Name

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